The Johns Hopkins
University Alumni Association s Mid-Winter Ball is scheduled
for
Saturday, Feb. 7, at the B&O Railroad Museum, 901 W. Pratt St.,
from 8 p.m. to
midnight. The black-tie event will feature music by Voom Voom and
Her Paradise
Gardens, a 13-piece orchestra, a raw bar and open bar, and a
cocktail buffet by
Cameo Caterers.

Cost for the ball is $60 per person for alumni and their guests,
and $50 per person
for newer alumni ( 88 to 97 graduates) and their guests. For more
information,
call Korkud Egrican at 410-516-0363.

The Homewood/Peabody
Women's Forum will hold a Book Drive the week of Feb. 2
through 6, to benefit the Family and Children's Center. The
Hopkins community is
asked to donate books, gently used magazines, children's books,
coloring books and
any picture books to an organization that provides services for
needy people. The
books will be given to the Family and Children's Center to be
used in community
outreach.

Book bins will be located in the Levering Union lobby by the
Union Desk and on the
sixth floor lobby of the Wyman Park Building. For information
about the book drive,
call Barb at 410-516-4777 or Helen at 410-516-8459.

The Howard Hughes
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship awards a stipend of
$3,000 to 25 undergraduates from either the School of Arts and
Sciences or the
School of Engineering. Students who qualify will conduct
laboratory research with
a faculty sponsor. The deadline for submitting applications is
Friday, Feb. 27.

Areas of research opportunity include biology, chemistry,
sociology, psychology,
and biomedical and other areas of engineering.

Each student should submit a completed application, letter of
support from a lab
sponsor, letter of recommendation from a faculty member, college
transcript and a
three-page proposal outlining the research project the student
will be working on
during the summer.

The application is available on the Web at
http://www.jhu.edu/~as1/app1.htm. To
receive application materials, contact Gary K. Ostrander,
associate dean for
research, or Jenny Elliott, administrative assistant, at 224
Mergenthaler on the
Homewood campus, at 410-516-8215 or by e-mail,
jelliott@jhu.edu.

The English Language
Program of the Language Teaching Center will offer two
courses
for graduate students next semester:

Communication Strategies in the American Classroom
(370-601) is designed to assist
international graduate students with their English and teaching.
(Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, 10 to 10:50 a.m.)

For information, including classroom locations, contact Doris
Yaffe Shiffman at
410-516-5122 or
dshiffman@jhu.edu, or call the Language Center at
410-516-4466.

The Zanvyl Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences sumer session offers Hopkins
students, visiting undergraduates and pre-college students an
opportunity to take
courses at Hopkins in two five-week terms, from June 1 to July 3
and from July 6
to Aug. 7. The compact courses provide full credit for
undergraduate offerings in
the humanities, sciences, social sciences and computer science.
The summer session
also offers an intensive English language program for those whose
first language
is not English.

The summer Pre-college Program places academically talented high
school students
in college classes, allowing them to earn college credit.
Participants may choose
the residential or commuter option and take up to two courses in
one of seven
programs. College workshops, tours of Hopkins facilities and
social activities
complement the academic experience.

Catalogs with a complete list of course offerings and application
forms are
available from the Office of Summer Programs, 230 Mergenthaler on
the Homewood
campus; by phone, at 410-516-4548; e-mail,
summer@jhu.edu; or at the Web site
www.jhu.edu/~sumprog. JHU undergraduates may pick up a
registration packet and catalog from the Office of the Registrar,
75 Garland Hall, after March 23.